A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Mathematics of Swing Options: A Survey




AuthorsJukka Lempa

EditorsFred Espen Benth, Valery A. Kholodnyi, Peter Laurence

Publication year2014

Book title Quantitative Energy Finance


Abstract

This paper is a survey article on mathematical theories and techniques used in the study of swing options. In financial terms, swing options can be regarded as multiple-strike American or Bermudan options with specific constraints on the exerciseability. We focus on two categories of approaches: martingale and Markovian methods. Martingale methods build on purely probabilistic properties of the models whereas Markovian methods draw on the interplay between stochastic control and partial differential equations. We also review other techniques available in the literature.



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